Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 18 March 1869 — Page 1

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M'CAlKJfe_TAIiBOT. OfTICK—"Stone Front," East of Court Honse.

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Advertising Agents,

HO. 40 PARK ROW, MEW TORK.

MESSRS.

GEO. P. ROWELL

co.

(formerly ol Crawford«Tille), Topeka, Kanca*. Particular attention given to thu collection ol •hums, investing of money, payment of taxes of MD-reaidanta, redeeming laiids sold for taxes, inveeUgation of titles, Ac. jan21

T. ItcM£€HAN,

SB8TDKNT

DKNT18T, Crawrffir&viUe, latf., re-

spectfvlly tenders his serriccs to the public.

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"Good work and moderate price*." Please OUi Omns—Corner Main and Graea streets, next Post-Office, upstairs.

ATTORNJBY

J. G. McMECHAN, M.D., maybe foondat the mme place. aprtSCS

S. KSHHXDT. B. H. OAU4WAY.

KMW£D¥ A GALLOWAY

ATTORNEYS

AT LAW and General -Collecting

Agents, Crawfordsvillc, Indiana. firing members ol the United States Law Associatton and Con«ctiun Union, which has a member in ovevy coouty in the United State*, they have fhcilittss for transacting business in all parts of the coon-

corapSS

Orr os adjoining the Mayor's office, over the W book store.

W. p. BRITT05T,

AT LAW, Crawfordsville, Ind. At

tends to all kinds of legal-business. Orric* ficr Simpson's grocery store, MaiP street-

W.T. BRUSH,

ATTORNKY-AT-LAW,

and General Collecting

Agent, Crawlordsvilie, Ind. AH legal borinese entrusted to him will receive immediate at'.ention •(Bee on Vernon St .nearly opposite the Post Office.

JaTWtf

SYD. B. OAYIS,

A TTOBNKY AT LAW, Wavoland, Indiana, will

give prompt attention to business eHtrusted to fim In courts of Montgomery and Parke counties.

GEOSCxE 1. HURLEY,

ATTORNEY

AT LAW. and Notary PnbHc, Craw

fordsvillc, Ind. OrriOT over Crawford A Mnlifcis's store. Will attend to all kinds of legal bwiMsa entrusted to him. a2i

M. II. GALEY,

DBNTI8T,

Crawfordsville, Ind. Office on Wash

ington St., over Mack's Grocery Store. Dr. B. V. GALBY, long and favorably known to the community sui a first-claw Dentist, is in my employ. augl3yls

R. B. F. FIERCE,

A TTGRNKY AT LAW. Crawfordsville, Indiana

A. OmoK

over Crawford & Mullikin's store. Will

give prompt attention to business in all the Courts mt Montgomery county, aM

hilsideser,

OTARY PUBLIC, Crawfordsville, Ind. Orracn with W. P- Britton. AttendBto all business trusted to him with promptness. a23

N M.

THOMAS. A. I. THOMA8

THOMAS A THOMAS

A 1TORNBYS AT LAW, and Solicitors in BankA ruptcy, Crawfordaville, Ind. Oirioa In Hughes' Block, Mala Street. a23

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THOMAB PAITKRaON.

WHITE A PATTERSON

ATTORNEYS

AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW,

Crawt'ordsvUle, Ind. Office—Empire Block, Main Street.

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Ir. jr. C. SIMARD

HOMEOPATHIC

PHYSICIAN, crawfordsville

iud. Ofbick with the Township Trustee.

M. 99. WHITEFORD

ATTORNEY-AT-LAW,

Notary Public and Gener

al Collecting Agent, Crawfordsville, Indiana. Office in Muyor's Room. He c»11b the attention of all in city and country to Als card, and solicit lor himself a share of the public ^pttronage. iy&»

DENTALJCARD^

'X\ M'MECHAN,

.RESIDENT DENTIST,?

WOULD

inform hisft-fendB and the pub

lic generally that he has removed to the rooms on the corner of Green and Main streets, up stairs—entrance next, door to the -post office—where he will be found at all limes ready to do any kind of Dental Work

In a satisfactory manner. He asks an examination of his work and prices. |3T*Dr. McMechan will fill all contracts Iter work mads by thelatefirm ofMeHeehin

Wolfe. J. (1. McMoetuw, H.D., out be found at fee mors p2»oe.

For the Crawfordsville Journal. INTO MISCHIEF.

Dancing feet and busy fingers, Never still the whole day through, For the little brain irom dreamland

Brings them work enough to do. Racing through the gorgeouB parlor, Komping on the winding stair, Tearing books and breaking vases—

Into mischief everywhere.

Picks the cakc and tastes the jelly, Breaks the windows, slams the door, Throws the statues from their brackets,

Scatters playthings on the floor. Tearing little coats and trowscre, Rumpling up his curly hairBusy, naughty little fingers,

Into mischief every where.

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Spilling ink upon the carpet, Dashing pictures from the wall, Breaking mirrors, singing, shouting

In the attic and the hall. Tracking mud across the entrys, Turning over desk and chair, Cuttiug up the morning paper—

Into mischief everywhere.

But no look of hate or malice Darkens o'er those laughing eyes Not a thought of harm or sinning

In his little bosom lies. For hiB soul is pure and guiltless Whate'r harm the iingerB do— Though the little feet are straying

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the Agents for the CRAY.'FORD3VILLB JOURNAL, and the most influential and larest circulating Newspapers in the United tates and CanadaB. They arc authorized to contract for us at our lowest prices..

PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

THOS. J. GRIFFITH, MJD.

PHYSICIANall

AND SURGEON. Darlington, Ind.,

attends to varieties ol practice at aJl hoars of day or night. Medical Kx&miner for the Chicago Uac Insurance Company. janSl

J. N. MCCORMICK.

ATTORNKY-AT-LAW

and Real Estate Brakor

Into mischief all day through. M. H. K.

VN1VEK8AL SUFFRAGE. I

The opinions of mankind have been various as to the motive of Thomas Paine in his rude attack on the Bible but his character as a consistent, able and sinccre champion of the Right of Man, and a despiser of every act of Government savoring, in the leist degree, of tyranny, has never been called in question, even by his most bitter enemies. His services as apolitical writer during the Revolution, were acknowledged with gratitude by all the patriots of that day and the lovers of human liberty, the world over, regard his political works with the highest admiration. Washington, Jefferson, Franklin, and many more of the founder^ of American liberty have left on record their indoreemennt of his political principles. For the benefit of our Democratic friends, we propose to quote a few sentences from his dissertation entitled the "First Principles of Government," published during the administration of Washington. He says: "In contemplating government by election and represent, tion, we amuse not ourselves in inquiring when, or how, or by what right it began. Its origin is ever in view. Man is himself the origin and the evidence of the right. It appertains to him in right of existence, and his person is the title-deed." •The true, and only true basis of representative government, is equality of rights. Every man has aright to one vote and no more, in the choice of representatives. The rich have no more right to exclude the poor from the right of voting, or of electing and being elected, than the poor have to exclude the rich and wherever it ib attempted or proposed on either side, it is a question of force and not of right. Who is he that would exclude another? That other has the right to exclude him."

And again, he says: "The only ground upon which exclusion from the right of voting is consistent with justice, would be to inflict it as a punishment, for a certain time, npon those who should propose to deny that right tp others."

This is the judgment of Mr. Paine on the conduct of the Democratic members of the Legislature, who violated their oaths to prevent the enfranchisement of the negro. According to the proposition he lays down, the negro cannot be denied the right of suffrage on account of his color, but those white meu who propose to deny him this right might be for their crime against the rights and liberties of others. Will they submit their case to this champion of the Rights of Man, or do they prefer to submit it to one holding to the principles of the Tories of the Revolution? In whose hands would they be safer, Mr. Paine's or those of Mr. Burke, his great antagonist in the political field, who contended that the masses of mankind were justly subject to the government of a few of the superior class who, by means of their intelligence, could grasp and hold political power

The opponents of impartial suffrage, with some show of feeling for the whites of the South, have claimed to twee their opposition upon the

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fear that the hegroes will have full control in fioine of the States of that section. But in their opposition, they advocate the very principles under which thfeir fears are most likely to be realized If a man can justly be excluded from voting on account of his color, the blacks could exclude the whites where they have the power to do so and every man who shall vote, at the special election on the 23d, in favor of excluding the negro, will thereby assert the right of the negro to exclude the white man in those States where he is in the majority and has the power to do it.

The negroes of South Carolina may elect a majority of their color to the Legislature, the Legislature may order a Convention to amend the Constitution, the Convention may be controlled by the negroes, and they make a Constitution excluding all men without "a visible admixture of African blood in their veins," from the polls. Every vote, on the 23d, to return the recusant members of the Legislature, will be a positive, written assertion of their right, on principle, to do so. If another Know-Nothing party should arise in the future, and seek to disfranchise all who are not native born citizens of America, every vote to exclude the negro will be an assertion of the right of such party to carry out its objects. If one man may be excluded because he is an African, another, on the same principle, may be excluded because he is" »n Irishman, or aft Englishman, or ft German. The pernicious principle of excluding any from the polls except for crime, if p«shed to its final, logical result, would disfranchise all and render them subject to the will of any one man itho could, in any manner, possess himself the physical power to control th^em. It is a Monarchical, and not a Republican principle, and the sooner it is entirely discarded, by trie American people, the better it will be for the future peace and prosperity of the country.

The negroes of the Souttiern States are now invested with political power, and it can never be taken from them except by force of armB. We should therefore be slow to make bad precedents for them to follow. They may make the exclusion of their race in the North, a precident for the exclusion of our race in the South. Those who believe in the doctrine of exclusion, could not blame them if they should. This would lead us just where all wrong principles lead, to civil wars, then chaos, and finally despotism. Why may we not all enjoy the benefits and privileges of the government alike, as we do the blessed sunshine, the invigorating rain, and the life-preserving air we breathe We have quite as much right to exclude a man from these as we have from his equal voice in the choice of rulers. P. S. K.

••ad Fish Caoilay to the 8«rf«ee.

Morgan county sent a slick, sleek and slow popinjay, named Mitchell, to the Legislature. He was the only Republican in the House who voted with the Democrats for Hughes for United States Senator. At a mutual admiration meeting, held by the Democrats at Indianapolis last week, this Mitchell was called upon to speak. He responded. Among other things, he said: "A great upheaval in the political world has brought me to the surface." Don't doubt it. "A great upheaving" of the mighty waters always brings to the surface the dead fish and light fungus and shallow brained Rinkajous that would otherwise always have remained at the bottom. And Mitchell is just like a dead fish,—when he reaches the surface his belly is up. He will never get above the surface.—Anderson Herald.

New York has 15,000 tenement houses, in which live 480,000 people —more than half the populiation.

Kanflgfl boasts of inexhaustible skit springs furnishing the purest salt ia the United StataB.

JOURNAL POT-WVHS.

Prepared with a decent regard tor the eighth commandment}

It is mentioned as a curiors fact that none of the new Cabinet officers ever wrote for the New York Ledger.

So far as priority in the Presidency is concerned, Grant is No. 18 so far as quality, he is No.l.

Grant has lacerated Schurz's feelings by telling him that he (S.) has not lived in Missouri as long as lie (G.) had done.

The coming dictionary is to have this among other new definitions: Stew-art—the art of getting a Cabinet in a stew. "Gottsdonnerkrenzschoopsefiwerenoth," the expletive employed by Hans Breitmann on a recent occasion, is not coming into general use

It is doubtful if Grant can continue through his term. Several DernocnVic papers have already begun to call him Ulissus.

Chas Lever has written anew nov el entitled "The Rent in the Cloud." The Detroit Tribune thinks that it is too high a rent for poor folks.

Gen. Schenek, who is favorably inclined toward Woman Suffrage, declines to subscribe for the Revolution on the ground that it is a Democratic organ

The Chicagoan avers that "the woman's movement means her absolute sovereignty and independence." It must be a sort of detached movement, then.

Train writes to aNew York paper that he is "becoming more of a woman ev ry hour." Gracious!! Georgy couldn't stand that process but a short time.

A colored barber in Milwaukee has learned both German and Fre ich by the aid of 25 cent hand-books, showing that twenty five scents will go a great way with a barber.

A. in his forthcomin^ swing around the circle, will surround himself with choice spirits from Kentucky. numbering the entire Congressional delegation in Congress.

Gen. Hancock's banishment to Dakota, by making a martyr of him, will have a favorable effect upon his chances for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Pennsylvania.

Communication with the dead—is there such a thing or is there not? A correspondent of aNew York newspaper furnishes a column of what purports to

IK?

conversation with An

drew Johns n. Judge Hour knew, near throe weeks ago, that he was to be put in the Cabinet. At least, he said to a friend who congratulated him on the raising of his judicial salary, that he was "only a passenger."

The Philadelphia convict with whom Chas Dickens sympathized so tbuchingly in his "American Notes," is still an incorrigible thief, and is now in the Penitentiary. He has been returned three times, and is still known as the "Dickens Convict."

The Commissioner of Internal Rev enue writes to the Milwaukee Assessor to inquire why it is tin le returns of fermented liquors are less than last year. The Sentinel attributes the deficit to the reform of several able absorbers. They will prob ably be proceeded against for defraud ing the revenue.

The New York Sun smites the liar of parody to the following effect: —He never told his Cabinet, But let grim silence, like acorn i' the foot, Torture their anxious souls he smiled In thought And with a rare and prudent understanding (of the situation), He sat like a fellow holding four kings and an ace, Calm and serene.

A wit suggests that the reason why no biU. authorizing dissection can ever be passed is because there are so many dead and fossilized politicians around the Legislatures, who naturally fear that they may themselves become the victims of the dissecting knife.

It is reported that the velocipede makers will succeed in breaking down the claim of Witty, whereon he extorts such heavy royalties, but that the patent of Hanlon, who proposes to charge a more moderate royalty, will not be contested, thus showing that witty was not wise, and that ambitious royalty may overreach itself.

The traveling public will be interested to learn that Snow has been removed from the Union Pacific Railway. Th'a particular Snow referred to is C. H. Snow, late Government Director, who is reported to have in preparation a report showing up unfavorably the construction and management of the road. How Snow tttowc thie month.

INDIANA WEW8.

Fort Wayne is to have a rink. Horse thieves infest Benton county. Lafayette has trouble with its town clock.

Dr. Walker, of Attica, died last week at the age of 53. Two beautiful swans were recently captured in Fountain county.

Col. W. G. Terrill, of Newport, wii! likely be Assistant Postmaster General.

Hegier, of the Attica Ledger, is said to be in pursuit of the postoffice in his town.

A movement is on foot in Warren county for a gravel road leading from Attica to Pine Village.

Two members of the Legislature forgot to draw their fifty dollars' worth of stamps, stationery, etc.

Indianapolis has a contract to furnish at least one murder a day. Thus lar the contractor has filled the bill.

The Fort Wayne Gazette has changed hands. James R. Willard has sold his interest to John N. Irvin. Success

The ghost of Seymour Barrnore, "the Man in Velvet," is reported to have been seen recently in Indianapolis.

During a revival in the M. E. Church, at Wabash, one hundred and fifty new converts connected themselves with the church.

Track laying on the Indianapolis & Vineennes Railroad is being pushed forward at the rate of seven eighths of a mile per day.

Jesse Cleavland, ofTerre Haute., says in a card that he don't want to be postmaster and that he won't be postmaster. Is he insane?

Benton count}* boasts of a tree which turned out one thousand and seventeen cords of wood and ten coons. So saj-B the Benton Tribune.

A case of highway robbery occurred a day or two ago in the suburbs of Evansville. Four dollars were gained by the operation.

The Trustees of Asbury University, at Greencastle, have decided to erect anew building for the College, to cost $100,000.

Dan. Voorhees is coming home to stump Indiana in support of the boltig emocrats. It will "stump" Daniel to find an excuse for these po litical maniacs.

The Executive Committee of the State Board of Agriculture has adopta plans for, and will build this season, a bea itifu! floral hall, at the fair grounds in Indianapolis. "Donation parties" are quite the rage in many rural districts. Several holiest clergymen have recently been ruined thereby, eaten out of "house and home."

Davenport, the murderer of Bur ton, commenced a game of old sledge with Sike Hart man within fifteen minutes after being locked up in the Marion county jail.

The city of Richmond, Wayne county, has subscribed 8120,000 to the stock of the Cincinnati, Richmond & Fort Wayne Railroad, issuing her bonds, bearing interest at the rate Qf 7.30 per cent.

In the grand Democratic jubilee and reception at Evansville a few nights ago. the number of torches carried was only seventy-five—twen ty-seven of which were carried by small boys. The distinguished "resigners" were almost overwhelmed with this tremendous display.

Anew branch of study will soon be required to be taught in all Gur public schools. That is vclocipcding. The Buntin House, of Terre Haute, is already forced to surrender its dining room for such a school. The. art. should be taught in the public schools no doubt. Hooray for Amerikyand velocipedes!

Professor Gow," Superintendent oi public schools, EvansviDe, says it has been his fortune to meet two intelligent teachers who were dismissed from the charge of schools, in different places, for teaching that the earth is a sphere and revolves on its axis every

twenty-four

hours.

Hartman, the brother of Mrs. Clem, was found dead in his cell, at Indianapolis, on Wednesday of last week. He had previously made a confession, in which he attempted to clear Mrs. Clem. He had implicated other parties, and there seemed some ground for the rumor that he had been killed by one of them. It is stated, however, that the officers of the jail in which he was confined say there is no ground for this rumor.